A Theory Of Stylistic Rules In English

Author : Michael Rochemont
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134743149
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Theory of Stylistic Rules in English (RLE Linguistics A: General Linguistics) written by Michael Rochemont and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book defends in part a particular elaboration of the stylistic rule component of the grammatical model first presented in Chomsky and Lasnik (1977). It is argued that stylistic rules share a number of fundamental properties, most significantly that they characterize noncanonical focusing constructions and that they make no contribution to the logical forms (LFs) of sentences they apply to in particular regard to truth conditional interpretation. The work includes a discussion of Auxiliary Inversion constructions in English, arguing that these constructions also sometimes involve focusing, though not stylistic. An approach to the interpretation of these sentences is suggested, employing a concept of interpretative templates: rules relating S-structure and LF for which some independent evidence is suggested.

Author : Aafke Hulk Professor of French Linguistics University of Amsterdam
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195349547
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Subject Inversion in Romance and the Theory of Universal Grammar written by Aafke Hulk Professor of French Linguistics University of Amsterdam and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001-08-27 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Romance Languages document remarkable variations in subject word order in different constructions, and have various restrictions in their occurrence. No consensus has emerged on what the paramaters are for such variations. This volume does not attempt to create a consensus, but tries to represent and bring into dialogue the different sides of the debate.

Author : Aafke Hulk
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198032560
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Subject Inversion in Romance and the Theory of Universal Grammar written by Aafke Hulk and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Romance Languages document remarkable variations in subject word order in different constructions, and have various restrictions in their occurrence. No consensus has emerged on what the paramaters are for such variations. This volume does not attempt to create a consensus, but tries to represent and bring into dialogue the different sides of the debate.

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231132701
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rules and Representations written by Noam Chomsky and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Chomsky's 1978 Woodbridge Lectures, this book combines a study of linguistics with our growing knowledge of the human mind & our understanding of the philosophy of language. This new edition features two new essays.

Author : Joseph E. Emonds
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311080851X
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Unified Theory of Syntactic Categories written by Joseph E. Emonds and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.

Author : Frederick Newmeyer
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004454047
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Linguistic Theory in America written by Frederick Newmeyer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-24 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Susumu Kuno
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027218216
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Functional Constraints in Grammar written by Susumu Kuno and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines in detail the acceptability status of sentences in the following five English constructions, and elucidates the syntactic, semantic, and functional requirements that the constructions must satisfy in order to be appropriately used: There-Construction, (One's) Way Construction, Cognate Object Construction, Pseudo-Passive Construction, and Extraposition from Subject NPs. It has been argued in the frameworks of Chomskyan generative grammar, relational grammar, conceptual semantics and other syntactic theories that the acceptability of sentences in these constructions can be accounted for by the unergative–unaccusative distinction of intransitive verbs. However, this book shows through a wide range of sentences that none of these constructions is sensitive to this distinction. For each construction, it shows that acceptability status is determined by a given sentence's semantic function as it interacts with syntactic constraints (which are independent of the unergative–unaccusative distinction), and with functional constraints that apply to it in its discourse context.

Author : Carola Trips
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027296278
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From OV to VO in Early Middle English written by Carola Trips and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2002-12-13 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph answers the question of why English changed from an OV to a VO language on the assumption that this change is due to intensive language contact with Scandinavian. It shows for the first time that the English language was much more heavily influenced by Scandinavian than assumed before, i.e., northern Early Middle English texts clearly show Scandinavian syntactic patterns like stylistic fronting that can only be found today in the Modern Scandinavian languages. Thus, it sheds new light on the force of language contact in that it shows that a language can be heavily influenced through contact with another language in such a way that it affects deeper levels of language. It further gives an introduction to working with the Penn-Helsinki-Parsed Corpus of Middle English II (PPCMEII). It discusses the texts included in the corpus, it describes the format of the texts, and it explains how to search the corpus with the tool called Corpus Search. The book targets researchers in diachronic syntax, comparative syntax and in general linguists working in the field of generative syntax. It can further be used as an introduction to working with the PPCMEII.

Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134750005
Total Pages : 3859 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics Mini-set A General Linguistics written by Various and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 3859 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RLE: Linguistics Mini-set A focuses on the field of General Linguistics, and collects classic titles from imprints such as Garland, Allen & Unwin, and Croom Helm. A variety of important international linguists are featured. The titles are: The Chomsky Update. The Conceptual Basis of Language. Foundations of General Linguistics. Ideologies of Language. Learning about Linguisics. Lexical Phonology and Morphology. The Linguistic Description of Opaque Contexts. Linguistic Meaning. Redefining Linguistics. A Theory of Stylistic Rules in English. Universal Grammar

Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136158324
Total Pages : 15061 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics written by Various and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 15061 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics brings together as one set, mini-sets, or individual volumes, a series of previously out-of-print classics from a variety of academic imprints. With titles ranging from Applied Linguistics and Language Learning to Experimental Psycholinguistics and Sociolinguistics Today: International Perspectives, this set provides in one place a wealth of important reference sources from a wide range of authors expert in the field.